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🗓️ 9 October 2025
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Donald Trump has always protected powerful people who break the law so it shouldn't be a surprise that pardons for criminals like Diddy and Ghislaine Maxwell are being discussed. Steve Schmidt sits down with Tara Palmeri to discuss Trump's pardon plans and his history of protecting abusers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | I have a theory that I want to put out there. |
| 0:06.5 | I believe that Trump, because he mentioned Diddy, and it's not the first time he mentioned |
| 0:10.1 | that, I think he'll pardon Glenn Maxwell, Diddy, and George Santos in the same day to |
| 0:15.3 | blur the moral lines and to cause chaos. |
| 0:18.4 | And so there's no singular story that is focused on because of the sense. |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah, 100% right. |
| 0:26.7 | But over and there's a there's a straight line on this. |
| 0:30.8 | And I and I talked about it in the moment going back to 2017 on January 20th, |
| 0:39.1 | when Sean Spicer walked out and stood behind a White House podium |
| 0:46.2 | and said crowd size A, which was much smaller than crowd size B, |
| 0:52.1 | was in fact bigger. |
| 0:54.4 | And from that moment on, 50,000 lies, 60, whatever, whatever number you want to use. |
| 1:02.8 | And then those are just Trump's lies, right? |
| 1:05.3 | And then all the lies that swarm around those lies, right? |
| 1:09.5 | So the accumulation, literally, right, social media of millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of lies have eradicated the ability of people to see the plain truth right in front of them, whether it's Gisleine |
| 1:31.3 | Maxwell and Katie Johnson, whether it's no, there's not a war in Portland, there is a guy |
| 1:39.1 | in a frog suit and a chicken outfit out there, but it's America, it's Portland, and there's a lot of weird shit going on. |
| 1:46.0 | And you have National Guard troops arriving from Texas, invading another state, and everything that is happening is at odds completely from the rationale being used |
| 2:10.8 | to justify every action and so each day, every day, all day, government officials belligerently get in the face |
| 2:28.9 | with whoever dares to ask them a question and insist two plus two is five and fuck you right and |
| 2:40.6 | eyes green deal with that right and his political approval numbers are collapsing while his power is increasing. |
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